I think perhaps I've inadvertently established a fundamental reason why my failure to let a certain well-known and sort-of-long-dead artist seriously influence my work—hunh? Why must my syntax be so tortured? Let me try rephrasing that. I have established, I think, why I have been unable to let a certain well-known and sort-of-long-dead artist seriously influence my work. I do not think it is necessary to tell you which artist, for I do not think I am obliged to reveal the soft heart of the bones of—